The main purpose of a proving ground is to move the vehicle testing from the public roads to a controlled and safe testing environment.
In that respect the proving ground needs to simulate a wide range of road types and events, all correlated with the customers' usage of the vehicle.

From 1965 to date, all vehicles developed by Ford of Europe have been tested and validated at Ford Lommel Proving Ground (LPG).

Since the year 1999, 23 million Euro was invested in additional state-of-the-art testing facilities.
A lot of focus was put on the priorities of the Ford brand. Currently, Ford LPG contains 80 kilometers of test tracks supplemented by modern test rigs.